Type My Library:

[Gilly]

Unfortunately I have not yet read all of these books but they are all representative of some area of interest of mine, or have been recommended by people whose tastes are in line with my own and were mostly thought over and researched before purchasing. This is sort of my "portable" library, which changes depending on when I have most recently been to my parents house (the residence of my "full" library), what has been recommended to me,

Fiction:

The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and Children of Hurin (can't find my copy of The Silmarillion; this is somewhat unsettling ) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Legend of Luke by Brian Jacques
Kafka On The Shore and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
The Earthsea Trilogy and The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula LeGuin
Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Prayer for Own Meany by John Irving
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
Dubliners by James Joyce
1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Sandman: The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman and Yoshitaka Amano
Saffron and Brimstone by Elizabeth Hinde
Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile by Verlyn Kinkenborg
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
Klondike Tales by Jack London
Scarface: The Beginning by L.A. Banks ()

Poetry/Plays:

A complete Yale edition set of all Shakespeare plays and other writings
Great Sonnets, a compilation
The Norton Anthology of English Literature (thank you AP English )
No Exit and Others by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms compiled by Mark Strand and Eavan Boland
Non-Fiction:
Gods in Everyman and Gods in Everywoman by Jean Shinoda Bolen
Ruling Your World by Sakyong Mipham
Questioning The Millenium by Stephen Jay Gould
The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game and Nature and Madness by Paul Shephard
Being and Time and Basic Problems of Phenomenology by Martin Heidegger
The Problem of Pain and Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume (vomit...)
Practical Philosophy and Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
Mahabarata retold by William Buck
Buddhist Scriptures, a compilation
Bhagavad-Gita (as it is) translated by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Reincarnation by Josheph Head and S.L. Cranston
Zen Physics by David Darling
The Human Odyssey by Thomas Armstrong
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (translated by Ursula LeGuin)
The Tibetan Book of the Dead translated by Robert A. F. Thurman
Prometheus Rising by Anton Robert Wilson
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
One Continuous Mistake by Gail Sher
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Zen in the Martial Arts by Joe Hyams
The Little Book of Buddhism by the Dalai Lama
Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freakanomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
The A.A. Big Book and the N.A. core text
The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure by Chris Prentiss
Some coffee table book about John Landis



JUDGE ME, DAMMIT

[smccosker]

You read too much. But from your selection I'd say an NT. Can't tell much else. How is the scarface book?

[Darkstar]

kinda hard typing someone with what kind of books they have, tell us rather which one you have read and what you thought of it or why you have chosen those books.

Just my two cents

btw, I see you have lots of buddhist, zen buddhist and stuff like that. How were those kind of books? Did you get enlightment?

[jessica129]

Introduce some Nora Roberts into your life.

[Gilly]

*hideous amounts of projectile vomit*

Sorry...

I shelved Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb for about two months at the book store. I don't know why anyone reads that woman's garbage. On top of being a trashy popular romance/mystery writer, she's absurdly egocentric: she "hired" her husband to erect a museum in her honor. What the fuck?

She is the crack-cocaine of modern writing: cheap, trashy entertainment void of any need for complex thought, imagination, or introspection to enjoy. I would compare her books to a TV series like The OC. Anyone who reads her books is almost always immediately ticked off of my list of people who are possibly intelligent and interesting, and onto a list not meaningful enough to merit a real title, but most accurately referred to as "post-modern trash."

Get some Haruki Murakami or Herman Hesse into your system, THEN try to justify Nora Roberts as a good writer.

Darkstar, I'm trying not to work on it

[jessica129]

lol! Actually I've only read two of her books and I wanted to gouge my eyes out by the time I got done with the 500-something pages of nothing-ness..I only read it to pass time on my work breaks. Perhaps I will pick something up off your list.

[Gilly]

lol! Actually I've only read two of her books and I wanted to gouge my eyes out by the time I got done with the 500-something pages of nothing-ness..I only read it to pass time on my work breaks. Perhaps I will pick something up off your list.

A wise decision. I would recommend Murakami if you're looking for fiction: he is very surreal and completely awesome. Also Herman Hesse is a master of spinning a good tale; I've only read Narcissus and Goldmund, but it was absolutely enthralling, in my opinion.

As far as lighter fiction reading goes, well, I don't really do any myself (except Harry Potter; if you haven't read these, you actually might want to consider starting the series: they are fun but dark at the same time; easy to read, but not shallow like most popular literature...definitely worth your work breaks, and will probably end up bleeding into your free time ) but from what I saw at the book store, Janet Evanovich is really popular and supposedly hysterical, and her writing doesn't exude anything like the copious amounts of pretense that Nora Roberts' books make up for their lack of real creative substance with. James Patterson is another popular author who is allegedly worth reading, although I haven't experienced him first-hand myself.

[smccosker]

GILLY IS A PUNK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gilly]

^_^; I think I have a fan! How embarrassing...

[Not A Communist Shill]

From the little I know and remember about some of those authors and works, I would say Beta predominates the other quadras. But considering that 90% of all literature is written by INFps, this wouldn't be surprising.

[Blaze]

From the little I know and remember about some of those authors and works, I would say Beta predominates the other quadras. But considering that 90% of all literature is written by INFps, this wouldn't be surprising.

wow. is that really true?

[Not A Communist Shill]

wow. is that really true?

I might have exaggerated substantially.

[ScarlettLux]

wow. is that really true?

I might have exaggerated substantially.

He actually means 90% of GOOD literature

[Rubicon]

Have you read Moby Dick yet, Gilly? If you have, d'you think it's worth reading?

[discojoe]

90% of all literature is written by INFps, this wouldn't be surprising.

Incorrect. 90% of literature was written by ESFjs. Of the remaining 10%, 4% was also written by ESFjs, and of the remaining 6%, 100% of it was written by Story Cat.

[Gilly]

Have you read Moby Dick yet, Gilly? If you have, d'you think it's worth reading?

Sadly, no, I haven't.

[eunice]

Wow, you really read alot and remember what you have read.

I'm more into non-fiction, especially when I can apply what I have read. I can't really appreciate fiction if it doesn't evoke anything out of me.

[munenori2]

Fiction:

The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and Children of Hurin (can't find my copy of The Silmarillion; this is somewhat unsettling ) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Legend of Luke by Brian Jacques
Kafka On The Shore and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
The Earthsea Trilogy and The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula LeGuin
Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Prayer for Own Meany by John Irving
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
Dubliners by James Joyce
1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Sandman: The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman and Yoshitaka Amano
Saffron and Brimstone by Elizabeth Hinde
Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile by Verlyn Kinkenborg
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
Klondike Tales by Jack London
Scarface: The Beginning by L.A. Banks ()

Poetry/Plays:

A complete Yale edition set of all Shakespeare plays and other writings
Great Sonnets, a compilation
The Norton Anthology of English Literature (thank you AP English )
No Exit and Others by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms compiled by Mark Strand and Eavan Boland
Non-Fiction:
Gods in Everyman and Gods in Everywoman by Jean Shinoda Bolen
Ruling Your World by Sakyong Mipham
Questioning The Millenium by Stephen Jay Gould
The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game and Nature and Madness by Paul Shephard
Being and Time and Basic Problems of Phenomenology by Martin Heidegger
The Problem of Pain and Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume (vomit...)
Practical Philosophy and Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
Mahabarata retold by William Buck
Buddhist Scriptures, a compilation
Bhagavad-Gita (as it is) translated by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Reincarnation by Josheph Head and S.L. Cranston
Zen Physics by David Darling
The Human Odyssey by Thomas Armstrong
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (translated by Ursula LeGuin)
The Tibetan Book of the Dead translated by Robert A. F. Thurman
Prometheus Rising by Anton Robert Wilson
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
One Continuous Mistake by Gail Sher
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Zen in the Martial Arts by Joe Hyams
The Little Book of Buddhism by the Dalai Lama
Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freakanomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
The A.A. Big Book and the N.A. core text
The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure by Chris Prentiss
Some coffee table book about John Landis



JUDGE ME, DAMMIT

Bolded stuff is good. Red stuff is AWESUM.

[munenori2]

From the little I know and remember about some of those authors and works, I would say Beta predominates the other quadras. But considering that 90% of all literature is written by INFps, this wouldn't be surprising.

Interestingly, my Intro to Fiction class in my last semester seemed to have multiple INFp authors. Zora Neale Hurston, James Joyce, James Baldwin. Even ESTp maybe (Jack Kerouac)?

[Sirena]

lol! Actually I've only read two of her books and I wanted to gouge my eyes out by the time I got done with the 500-something pages of nothing-ness..I only read it to pass time on my work breaks. Perhaps I will pick something up off your list.

Ugh, I'm with ya! I managed to get through one of her romance novels and completely hated it. I don't like reading romance at all. Not sure how some women can't get enough of it. I once started reading "Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife" written by Linda Berdoll, which is supposed to be a sequel to Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice." As much as I like Jane Austen, I couldn't get past the first 3 chapters of this book. There it sits on my bookshelf, never to be opened again.

[Gilly]

Bolded stuff is good. Red stuff is AWESUM.

Wow, you have REALLY similar interests to me, if that is representative of your tastes, Mune...like, those are almost all of my favorite I disagree with some of the Gita's philosophy right off the bat, but I am going to continue reading it anyways, I think. The Mahabarata is pretty awesome, though; I really like the idea of lacing philosophies into a story to convey their subtleties rather than expounding on them more explicitly...it makes me want to write an epic


I haven't read the Wind-up Bird Chronicle yet...I'm saving it for when I can completely devote my reading attention to it. Murakami is FUCKING AMAZING

[willekeurig]

I would recommend Murakami if you're looking for fiction: he is very surreal and completely awesome. .

Murakami is FUCKING AMAZING

I got Kafka on the Shore for my birthday from my godmother about two years ago. The back cover that said it's about a 14-year old boy who runs away from home and that one of the main themes is "examining identity". It totally sounded like some low-quality novel old people often buy to their angsty teenage relatives to help them handle "the emotional storms of puberty", so I left it at that.

Now, a moment ago I decided to go and check out my bookshelf because I couldn't get to sleep, and since there was nothing else I hadn't read a million times already I decided to google whether it actually is crap or not. And this thread came up. I guess you convinced me to give it a try.

[Aquagraph]

I'd suggest adding Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance to your library.

I lost most of my spiritual virginity to Tao Teh Ching.

[Gilly]

I got Kafka on the Shore for my birthday from my godmother about two years ago. The back cover that said it's about a 14-year old boy who runs away from home and that one of the main themes is "examining identity". It totally sounded like some low-quality novel old people often buy to their angsty teenage relatives to help them handle "the emotional storms of puberty", so I left it at that.

Now, a moment ago I decided to go and check out my bookshelf because I couldn't get to sleep, and since there was nothing else I hadn't read a million times already I decided to google whether it actually is crap or not. And this thread came up. I guess you convinced me to give it a try.

Heh, Kafka is like, intensely awkward but also incredibly well-written. The concepts are a little stereotypical but the writing and storyline are anything but. Overall it's not what you are labeling it to be, but he has better books.

[Azure Flame]

I know plenty of ENFj's who read a lot because apparently reading is how you look smarter than you actually are.

"oh yes, well john locke said this... can't you believe how true that is?"
"oh me too"
@Gilly should just do what he should already have been be doing: overacting on a broadway stage.

[Gilly]

I know plenty of ENFj's who read a lot because apparently reading is how you look smarter than you actually are.

"oh yes, well john locke said this... can't you believe how true that is?"
"oh me too"
@Gilly should just do what he should already have been be doing: overacting on a broadway stage.

...seriously?